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Jason C. Buckel
Jason Cord Buckel (born November 3, 1971) is an American politician, and the minority leader in the Maryland House of Delegates. He has represented District 1B since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Buckel was born in Allegany County, Maryland on November 3, 1971. He graduated from Bishop Walsh School in Cumberland, Maryland and attended George Mason University, where he earned a B.A. degree in political science with honors, and the University of Maryland School of Law, where he earned a J.D. degree with honors. He was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1996. After graduating, he started his own law firm and became a member of the Maryland State Bar Association.
Buckel became involved with politics in 2006, when he became a member of the Maryland Republican Party. In 2012, Buckel led the Allegany County campaign for Alex Mooney's exploratory bid in Maryland's 6th congressional district. In February 2014, he filed to run for the Maryland House of Delegates, seeking to unseat incumbent Delegate Kevin Kelly. He defeated Kelly in the general election, receiving 58.9 percent of the vote.
Buckel was sworn into the Maryland House of Delegates on January 14, 2015. From 2017 to 2018, he served as the Chief Deputy Minority Whip for the House Republican Caucus, and as the Minority Leader of the Maryland House of Delegates since April 2021.
In 2016, Buckel filed to run for delegate for the Republican National Convention, representing Marco Rubio. He received 1.8 percent of the vote in the primary election.
On April 10, 2023, less than 10 minutes before the legislature adjourned sine die, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones sought to move onto the next bill after Buckel had explained his vote on House Bill 1071. After a series of other Republican lawmakers began making appeals to also explain their votes, which were rejected by Jones, a shouting match led by Nic Kipke started and continued until the House adjourned, preventing several bills from receiving a final vote before the midnight deadline. During this, Buckel ordered Republican delegates to leave the chamber in protest of Jones rejecting delegates' appeals to speak; about a dozen lawmakers followed him to the doorway. Buckel denied that the disruption was a tactic to keep legislation from passing and later said he blamed Democratic lawmakers for the incident, arguing that they had "waited until the final minutes of the session to move controversial legislation with limited debate". After the General Assembly adjourned, the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland demanded "a [public] apology for the disrespect" shown to Jones.
In October 2021, Buckel was one of five Maryland state legislators from Garrett, Allegany and Washington counties who sent a pair of letters to West Virginia officials asking about annexation of Western Maryland to West Virginia. These letters caused a local uproar, with Jake Shade, an official from Allegany County running against one of the legislatures in the primaries, calling the request a political stunt, an embarrassment and unneeded distraction. Following criticism from local officials and some constituents, Buckel and state senator George Edwards issued a letter withdrawing support for the secession proposal. In an October 2024 interview with The Baltimore Sun, Buckel said that he suggested holding a non-binding secession straw poll among residents of counties in western Maryland to local lawmakers after hearing about West Virginia Governor Jim Justice suggesting that conservative counties in western Virginia should join West Virginia following the 2019 Virginia elections, in which Democrats gained control of both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly. The letters were sent to West Virginia officials while Buckel was on a hunting trip in South Dakota and he did not learn of the letters until he returned.
In December 2021, harassment charges were filed against Buckel in relation to his pending divorce. The complaint detailed more than three dozen messages sent by Buckel through Facebook Messenger to a Maryland State Police trooper who had a relationship with his estranged wife, including more than a half-dozen messages that had Buckel threatening to take his job and pension and to "destroy" and "bury" him. These charges were dropped by Frederick County prosecutors the next day.
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Jason C. Buckel
Jason Cord Buckel (born November 3, 1971) is an American politician, and the minority leader in the Maryland House of Delegates. He has represented District 1B since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Buckel was born in Allegany County, Maryland on November 3, 1971. He graduated from Bishop Walsh School in Cumberland, Maryland and attended George Mason University, where he earned a B.A. degree in political science with honors, and the University of Maryland School of Law, where he earned a J.D. degree with honors. He was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1996. After graduating, he started his own law firm and became a member of the Maryland State Bar Association.
Buckel became involved with politics in 2006, when he became a member of the Maryland Republican Party. In 2012, Buckel led the Allegany County campaign for Alex Mooney's exploratory bid in Maryland's 6th congressional district. In February 2014, he filed to run for the Maryland House of Delegates, seeking to unseat incumbent Delegate Kevin Kelly. He defeated Kelly in the general election, receiving 58.9 percent of the vote.
Buckel was sworn into the Maryland House of Delegates on January 14, 2015. From 2017 to 2018, he served as the Chief Deputy Minority Whip for the House Republican Caucus, and as the Minority Leader of the Maryland House of Delegates since April 2021.
In 2016, Buckel filed to run for delegate for the Republican National Convention, representing Marco Rubio. He received 1.8 percent of the vote in the primary election.
On April 10, 2023, less than 10 minutes before the legislature adjourned sine die, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones sought to move onto the next bill after Buckel had explained his vote on House Bill 1071. After a series of other Republican lawmakers began making appeals to also explain their votes, which were rejected by Jones, a shouting match led by Nic Kipke started and continued until the House adjourned, preventing several bills from receiving a final vote before the midnight deadline. During this, Buckel ordered Republican delegates to leave the chamber in protest of Jones rejecting delegates' appeals to speak; about a dozen lawmakers followed him to the doorway. Buckel denied that the disruption was a tactic to keep legislation from passing and later said he blamed Democratic lawmakers for the incident, arguing that they had "waited until the final minutes of the session to move controversial legislation with limited debate". After the General Assembly adjourned, the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland demanded "a [public] apology for the disrespect" shown to Jones.
In October 2021, Buckel was one of five Maryland state legislators from Garrett, Allegany and Washington counties who sent a pair of letters to West Virginia officials asking about annexation of Western Maryland to West Virginia. These letters caused a local uproar, with Jake Shade, an official from Allegany County running against one of the legislatures in the primaries, calling the request a political stunt, an embarrassment and unneeded distraction. Following criticism from local officials and some constituents, Buckel and state senator George Edwards issued a letter withdrawing support for the secession proposal. In an October 2024 interview with The Baltimore Sun, Buckel said that he suggested holding a non-binding secession straw poll among residents of counties in western Maryland to local lawmakers after hearing about West Virginia Governor Jim Justice suggesting that conservative counties in western Virginia should join West Virginia following the 2019 Virginia elections, in which Democrats gained control of both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly. The letters were sent to West Virginia officials while Buckel was on a hunting trip in South Dakota and he did not learn of the letters until he returned.
In December 2021, harassment charges were filed against Buckel in relation to his pending divorce. The complaint detailed more than three dozen messages sent by Buckel through Facebook Messenger to a Maryland State Police trooper who had a relationship with his estranged wife, including more than a half-dozen messages that had Buckel threatening to take his job and pension and to "destroy" and "bury" him. These charges were dropped by Frederick County prosecutors the next day.